[mjohnson]

If you're lucky enough to swing a tour through the Nevada National Security Site (nee Nevada Test Site) you can still see the trenches where they stationed soldiers pretty close in to the burst of the big atomic artillery weapon. Then the soldiers got to march even closer immediately after the shot. There were also bleachers, still present, for the press and VIPs to watch, just from a much greater distance. There's probably a video or two about "Atomic Annie".